Each data file contains an entire month of global fields of the parameters described in the SRB Data Products Section on an approximately 1° x 1° equal-area grid described in Global Geometry Resolution Section. The data files are in a binary format which can be read using software provided when ordering data. The files containing binary data are named according to the following convention:

srb_relN.n_WWWWwave_RRRRRR_yyyymm.fileformat, where:
srb	-->	Project name, Surface Radiation Budget
relN.n	-->	Release number for these data (e.g. N=3, n=0 --> Release 3.0)
WWWWwave	-->	Name of the algorithm used to generated the data parameters, (e.g. Longwave or Shortwave)
RRRRR	-->	Time resolution of the data file, (e.g. RRRRR = "3hrly" for instantaneous values every 3-hours, "daily" for daily averages, or "monthly" for monthly averages.)
yyyy	-->	4-digit year
mm	-->	2-digit month
fileformat	-->	fileformat = binary or ascii

More details regarding the data and file format is available in the readme files at the Atmospheric Science Data Center